Successful public health response to four cases of imported measles in Panama

Successful public health response to four cases of imported measles in Panama

In Panama, the last endemic cases of measles occurred in 1995. In this paper, we report four cases of imported measles in three girls and one boy after they returned from a trip to Poland and Israel between 28 April and 11 May 2011. The etiologic diagnosis of the four cases was confirmed by detecti...

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Main Authors: Nestor Sosa, Ilka Guerra, Leyda Abrego, Julio Cisneros, Juan Castillo, Javier Nieto-Guevara, Carlos Gálvez, Yadira Moltó, Rebecca E Smith, Juan Miguel Pascale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2012-08-01
Series:Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Subjects:
measles
infectious disease outbreaks
Panama
communicable disease control
travel medicine
Online Access:https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/2610
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